Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Rackspace Technology as a Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in Azure, supporting clients in their cloud transformation. You will design and implement scalable software services, execute cloud engineering tasks within sprint cycles, and build cloud solutions for new clients using cloud-native components. Leverage your expertise in Azure IaaS and PaaS to optimize workloads and provide application-oriented support. This role requires strong technical expertise, experience in complex projects, and excellent communication skills. Rackspace offers a friendly, collaborative team environment with access to certifications and training programs.

Requirements

• Be a strong technical expert with experience in complex projects from conception to delivery, to deliver automated, secure, and robust cloud infrastructure solutions
• With your comprehensive technical expertise, support customers in optimizing their workloads by providing application-oriented support in building, deploying, integrating, scaling, and repairing using native Azure and third-party toolchains as well as automation-oriented agile principles
• Through hands-on and advisory approaches, you will be responsible for assisting customers with tasks such as provisioning resources and modifying cloud environments, performing upgrades, and resolving everyday customer issues
• Actively participate in technical discussions at all levels, from architecture to hands-on programming
• Proven experience in designing and supporting Azure, including IaaS and PaaS in an enterprise setup
• Hands-on experience with AKS, Application Gateway, Azure infrastructure and networking, Azure security, etc
• Experience in building cloud automation, including CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker
• Scripting and automation methods such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Go
• Technical knowledge in as many of these as possible: Public Cloud Architecture (Azure), PaaS (Containers, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, FaaS, etc.)
• Knowledge of common security practices (e.g., using IAM roles, KMS, etc.)
• Prior experience developing large-scale systems
• Possesses a strong understanding of cloud technologies and can articulate best-practice approaches and practices
• Strong communication skills, experience with customer interaction desirable

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software services together with engineering and architecture teams
• Execute cloud engineering tasks within sprint cycles, aligned with best practices and templates within a customer project team
• Create cloud solutions for new customers using cloud-native components
• Utilize fundamental architectures and components to build automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting service frameworks
• Present architectures to customers of varying levels, from developers to business analysts to executives
• Advise executives and end-users with varying levels of familiarity with cloud technologies on technology selection, best practices, and benefits

Preferred Qualifications

Good knowledge of infrastructure technology is a great advantage, as is a programming background

Benefits

Immediate access to the latest certifications and first-class training programs